LOS ANGELES -- A 19-year-old U.S. Marine who was shot in the head while on military leave in Los Angeles last week has died, KTLA is reporting.

Lance Corporal Carlos Segovia Lopez was visiting his girlfriend's home near 31st Street and Western Avenue around 11 p.m. last Friday when he noticed a group of people near his car, according to police.

Segovia confronted the group and asked them to get away from his car before being shot in the head, his family told KTLA.

The Camp Pendleton Marine was rushed to Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center and was declared brain dead, according to officials.

His mother, Sandra Lopez, was fighting to have him transferred to a different hospital.

"My son did not sign into the Marines to give up," said his Lopez. "A Marine never gives up. I know what my son is going through. So I choose to ask the doctor to take another test and they refuse to do that."